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Skedaddle, by 'our Own' Special Correspondent [w. Russell].
Skedaddle by 'our Own' Special Correspondent - w. Russell Author:William Russell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1865 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: LOIS. LiLY-likencsa ! That is all the word in our dictionary that will tell you anything of Lois Hall; though, to be business-like, I should commence with the cottage, standing on a little brownish rise, with a faint flower garden, and an ineffectual vegetable patch, from which you are to infer that the soil was stubborn, and likely to prove too much fur the little hired boy -- sole scrap of masculinity about the premises of Mrs. Hall; and that the only neighbour was the sea, tumbling in disorderly fashion on the desolate beach below them. Lois's room looked on it, out of one little white- curtained window; the other kept itself informed as to the state of the country, and the probabilities of visitors coming " across lots." Between them stood a bureau, whose drawers had been rifled by Tory marauders, troubled with an eruption of brass knobs and handles, having a swinging oval mirror, and a small infinity of little drawers, where, doubtless, some belle of the Revolution bestowed her powder and patches, her buckles and ruffles. In a corner was the bed, modelled, as to proportions, after that of the unlucky Canaanitish king of old -- one which made getting in peculiar and getting outproblematical, and offered you your choice of locality, if you had any fancies about your head and particular points of the compass; grimly carved, and unrelenting, even over Lois, asleep there, her brown hair falling all over the pillow, and a little hand clutching painfully at the coverlet. Lazy child! waking, half an hour after the usual time, with a start and troubled eyea. "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us ...« less